Cut your nails Monday morning, without speaking (?), and you will get a present before the week is out; some have it, “without thinking of a red fox’s tail,” instead of “without speaking.”
Westport, Mass.
Superstition #1437
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1437.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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